21 March 2019
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, has responded to a new workforce report by The Health Foundation, The King's Fund, and Nuffield Trust.
21 March 2019
Responding to the Health Minister's announcement of a new set of access standards for GP practices, Dr Peter Saul, Joint-Chair of RCGP Wales said:
20 March 2019
Responding to a speech to be made by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock on genetic testing today, Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said:
11 March 2019
Responding to today's announcement by the Health Minister, Vaughan Gething AM, that Wales will be the first nation in the UK to introduce a locum register from April this year, Dr Mair Hopkin, Joint Chair of RCGP Wales said:
08 March 2019
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, has responded to a new NICE draft guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.
07 March 2019
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, has responded to analysis of the 2018 British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey.
06 March 2019
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, has responded to a study in the BMJ about long-term use of hormone therapy.
01 March 2019
RCGPNI acknowledges the increase in the health budget for 2019/20 and urges decision makers to ensure a long-term and strategic approach is taken to spending in order to deliver essential transformation of health and social care services.
27 February 2019
Responding to two papers published in the BMJ on antibiotics prescribing, Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "GPs are in an incredibly difficult position when it comes to antibiotics prescribing. We are under huge pressure not to prescribe - and publicly vilified when we are deemed to do so too readily - yet, we know that in some cases antibiotics are a matter of life or death.
26 February 2019
Dr Jonathan Leach, Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of GPs, has made the following statement on care of trans patients in general practice.